Tide of Empires Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West Volume 2 1654-1763 - Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History

Peter Padfield

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Publisher's Synopsis

Beginning with England poised to take over as foremost world trading and naval power, leading through the epic struggle of both maritime powers against Bourbon France, this volume, originally published in 1982, concludes with England's assumption of the 'Sovereignty of the Seas'. In this challenging view of naval history, which also embraces economics, finance and philosophy, political and individual freedoms are seen not so much as a cultural heritage, but as the necessary bed-fellos of 'Sea Power' and incompatible with its antithesis, 'Territorial Power'.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781138934597
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	28 Feb 2017
Edition:	1st edition
Language:	English
Number of pages:	294
Weight:	570g
Height:	235mm
Width:	159mm